Earthquake death toll has mounted to 150 while several hundred people have been confirmed injured in different areas of Balochistan today, SAMAA reports.
A powerful earthquake hit many cities of Sindh including Karachi and several districts of Balochistan this evening.
Luckily, the earthquake did not cause any harm in Sindh but it wrecked havoc in different districts of Balochistan.
Initially, no confirm reports of devastation and causalities were received from earthquake-hit areas of the province but gradually details of destruction in Balochistan started to arrive.
At the start of details, only few casualties and devastation of few mud-made houses were received but with passage of time, the death toll and volume of destruction mounted to manifolds.
According to latest reports, the death toll has mounted to over 150 and tally of injured persons has reached to several hundreds.
District Awaran of Balochistan has been affected most in today’s earthquake, where it has caused most of the casualties and destruction in many remote areas.
Agency Add:
A major earthquake hit a remote part of western Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 45 people and prompting a new island to rise from the sea just off the country's southern coast.
Tremors were felt as far away as the Indian capital of New Delhi, hundreds of miles (kilometers) to the east, where buildings shook, as well as the sprawling port city of Karachi in Pakistan.
The United States Geological Survey said the 7.8 magnitude quake struck 145 miles (235 km) southeast of Dalbandin in Pakistan's quake-prone province of Baluchistan, which borders Iran.
The earthquake was so powerful that it caused the seabed to rise and create a small, mountain-like island about 600 meters (yards) off Pakistan's Gwadar coastline in the Arabian Sea.
Television channels showed images of a stretch of rocky terrain rising above the sea level, with a crowd of bewildered people gathering on the shore to witness the rare phenomenon.
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